TY - JOUR
T1 - Storying a Social Drama
T2 - How Discourse and Practice Prevent Transformation Through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
AU - Mason, Ann Mogush
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the National Association for Multicultural Education.
PY - 2017/1/2
Y1 - 2017/1/2
N2 - In a sociohistorical moment during which racism has become more widely accepted as a social fact, U.S. scholars and practitioners of education continue to struggle with how schooling might participate in its eradication. In suburban, elite, Midwestern Pioneer City Public Schools, a series of initiatives I refer to as “the transformation” aimed to eliminate racial predictability in standardized test scores through efforts (a) to redistribute children from a racially and economically isolated elementary school across the district's four elementary schools, and (b) to train all district staff in a particular brand of culturally relevant pedagogy. In this article, I argue that Pioneer City School District was unable to address the transformative goals of culturally relevant pedagogy—in part because of irresolvable tensions between an explicitly anti-racist theory and the authoritative discourses suggesting that racism is a thing of the past.
AB - In a sociohistorical moment during which racism has become more widely accepted as a social fact, U.S. scholars and practitioners of education continue to struggle with how schooling might participate in its eradication. In suburban, elite, Midwestern Pioneer City Public Schools, a series of initiatives I refer to as “the transformation” aimed to eliminate racial predictability in standardized test scores through efforts (a) to redistribute children from a racially and economically isolated elementary school across the district's four elementary schools, and (b) to train all district staff in a particular brand of culturally relevant pedagogy. In this article, I argue that Pioneer City School District was unable to address the transformative goals of culturally relevant pedagogy—in part because of irresolvable tensions between an explicitly anti-racist theory and the authoritative discourses suggesting that racism is a thing of the past.
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U2 - 10.1080/15210960.2016.1263959
DO - 10.1080/15210960.2016.1263959
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013384787
SN - 1521-0960
VL - 19
SP - 26
EP - 34
JO - Multicultural Perspectives
JF - Multicultural Perspectives
IS - 1
ER -